Climate change impacts tourism, since both supply and demand of tourism services depend
on the quality and the management of a set of environmental attributes. This paper critically …

The behaviour of individuals, businesses, and government entities before, during, and
immediately after a disaster can dramatically affect the impact and recovery time. However …

This book is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the
broader resilience literature. The volume takes a multi-scaled approach to examine …

A leading challenge in measuring social vulnerability to hazards is for output metrics to
better reflect the context in which vulnerability occurs. Through a meta-analysis of 67 flood …

This article provides a review of recent scientific literature on social vulnerability to climate
change, aiming to determine which social and demographic groups, across a wide range of …

The paper deals with the development of a general as well as integrative and holistic
framework to systematize and assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation. The framework is a …

Assessment of disaster resilience using an index is often a key element of natural hazard
management and planning. Many assessments have been undertaken worldwide …

Environmental justice has increasingly become part of the language of environmental
activism, political debate, academic research and policy making around the world. It raises …

Due to persistent and serious threats from natural disasters around the globe, many have
turned to resilience and vulnerability research to guide disaster preparation, recovery, and …

Vulnerability is complex because it involves many characteristics of people and groups that
expose them to harm and limit their ability to anticipate, cope with, and recover from harm …